Consultant · Trainer · Author
Ready to scale your company to the next level.
Direct, systems-first consulting for CEOs and founders serious about scaling. Creator of The Operating Ecosystem 7™ — the operating manual for a company architecturally designed to grow.
14,000+
CEOs & founders advised
24+
Years as a founder & operator
14,000+
CEOs & entrepreneurs advised
145+
Seminars led across the U.S.
2
Successful company exits
Trusted by founders and operators across industries
The work is real. So is the standard.
Not a theorist. A founder, operator, and advisor.
Aaron Keith has spent more than 24 years in the trenches of entrepreneurship — building, scaling, and selling companies across multiple industries. He has personally advised more than 14,000 CEOs and founders, from startups to celebrities to billion-dollar organizations.
His work sits at the intersection of operational systems, leadership psychology, and behavioral science. Direct, systems-first, and rooted in what actually works inside a growing company.
The Operating Ecosystem 7™
Seven departments.
One operating system.
OE7 is Aaron's proprietary methodology for organizing and operating the seven core departments every scaling company must build — combining the mental game of business with the systems, structures, and performance disciplines that hold it in place.
Management
Decision rights, leadership cadence, and the operating rhythm that keeps a team aligned as it grows.
Operations
The structure, processes, and SOPs that let the company run without you in every room.
Finance
Profitability, cash flow, and financial architecture built for durable, predictable growth.
Marketing
A system that produces qualified demand consistently — not campaigns that come and go.
Sales
A repeatable process that converts without depending on individual heroics.
Production
Delivery and capacity engineered to hold quality as volume scales.
Quality Assurance
The standards and feedback loops that keep everything consistent under pressure.
“Systems hold mindset in place.”
Grade Your Business
Before you scale it,
grade it.
Most companies don't stall for lack of effort — they stall because one or two of the seven core departments are quietly capping everything else. The Grading Assessment gives you an honest, structured read on where your business actually stands, and the highest-leverage moves to make next.
Work with Aaron
Engagements built around where you are — and where you're going.
Not strategy decks. Not generic frameworks. Real work, inside your actual company. Every engagement begins with a grading assessment across all seven departments.
1-on-1 Consulting
6-month minimum · weekly · $2,400/mo
Aaron's most direct, comprehensive engagement. He works as a strategic partner inside your business across all seven departments — systems, leadership, and the real decisions that determine whether a company scales or stalls.
Inquire→Consulting Projects
Scoped to project · $650/hr
A specific challenge, initiative, or department built or rebuilt from the ground up. Scoped, focused engagements designed to produce a defined outcome — owned and operated by your team when it concludes.
Inquire→The Boardroom Seminar Series
Quarterly · Scottsdale · $1,800–$3,500
A private workshop for serious CEOs and operators. Each quarter a small, vetted group goes deep on one high-leverage topic. Not a lecture — you work on your business, in the room.
Inquire→Group Coaching
By request · 3–6 months · $1,200/person
A structured, multi-week program for organized groups who want to build together. Participants apply the frameworks to their own companies in real time, week over week.
Inquire→Sales Bootcamp
By request · 6 weeks · $1,200/person
An intensive program to rebuild or strengthen sales infrastructure, team performance, and leadership — fast. Built around the OE7 Sales framework and the Five Stages of Marketing & Sales.
Inquire→Finance Essentials
By request · 3 months · $1,200/person
The financial disciplines every CEO must own: reading statements, cash flow, profitability, and building toward both business and personal financial freedom.
Inquire→
Hire Aaron to speak
The goal is never to impress the room.
The goal is to change it.
Keynotes, workshops, and custom presentations — each built from scratch for your audience. Aaron interacts with everyone in the room rather than talking at it, creating the kind of breakthrough a lecture never can.
87%
of organizations that hire Aaron rehire him
What clients say
The work speaks. So do the people who lived it.
Aaron didn't hand us a strategy deck — he got inside the business and rebuilt the way it actually runs. Within two quarters we had systems where we used to have chaos.
Marcus Delgado
CEO, Northwind Logistics
The OE7 grading exposed exactly where we were leaking capacity. It was uncomfortable and completely worth it. Our operating margin is up 40% since.
Priya Shah
Founder, Vertex Labs
Most consultants talk. Aaron builds. He's the first advisor who understood the pressure of the seat because he's actually sat in it.
Ryan Whitfield
Co-founder, Meridian Health
Apply for a discovery call
Ready to build?
If you're a serious CEO or founder, the first step is a focused conversation. Aaron reviews every inquiry personally. Submitting an inquiry is not a commitment — it's a conversation.
Every inquiry is reviewed personally · Response within one business day